Design job fell on me. I didn't want to do it. It was an accident. For the first 10 years I said, "Tomorrow I'm stopping."

For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game. You have to be luxurious nude.

[Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it.

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

I love flinging everything I buy behind me onto the back-seat of the car: it's always full of packages when I travel, when I leap in my car!

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.